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Varieties of tone

Frege, Dummett and the shades of meaning

Richard D. Kortum

Abstract

In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines the many kinds of subtly nuanced words or word-pairs of everyday discourse such as 'and'-'but', 'before'-'ere', 'Chinese'-'Chink', and 'sweat'-'perspiration', that have proven resistant to truth-conditional explanations of meaning.

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Introduction Richard D. Kortum

pp.1-7

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_1
Historical preliminaries Richard D. Kortum

pp.11-14

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_2
Frege's ingredients of meaning Richard D. Kortum

pp.15-21

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_3
Theory of meaning

Dummett's canonical framework

Richard D. Kortum

pp.22-30

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_4
Varieties of tone Richard D. Kortum

pp.33-39

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_5
Frege's hints and colors Richard D. Kortum

pp.40-46

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_6
Active vs. passive voice and nominative-dative transformations Richard D. Kortum

pp.47-50

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_7
Onomatopeia, assonance, and alliteration Richard D. Kortum

pp.51-52

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_8
Dialect, subject, and style labels Richard D. Kortum

pp.53-64

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_9
"Perspiration" and "sweat" Richard D. Kortum

pp.65-66

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_10
"Dead" and "deceased" Richard D. Kortum

pp.67-69

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_11
"Doggie" and "bunny" Richard D. Kortum

pp.70-71

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_12
"Woman" and "lady" and "vous' and "tu" Richard D. Kortum

pp.72-74

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_13
Poetic language Richard D. Kortum

pp.75-81

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_14
The adverbs "still", "already", and "yet" Richard D. Kortum

pp.82-86

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_15
Conjunctions and the limits of truth-table logic Richard D. Kortum

pp.87-101

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_16
Expressive terms

pejoratives and honorifics

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pp.102-118

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_17
Evocatives

profanity and other taboos

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pp.119-133

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_18
Funny words

the language of humor

Richard D. Kortum

pp.134-142

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_19
Interjections Richard D. Kortum

pp.143-148

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_20
Sentence adverbs Richard D. Kortum

pp.149-164

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_21
Conducive questions Richard D. Kortum

pp.165-177

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_22
Hyperonyms and hyponyms Richard D. Kortum

pp.178-180

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_23
A taxonomy of tone Richard D. Kortum

pp.181-188

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_24
Tone and the representational character of meaning Richard D. Kortum

pp.191-192

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_25
Shades of sense Richard D. Kortum

pp.193-197

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_26
Towards a comprehensive formula Richard D. Kortum

pp.198-221

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_27
Theory of meaning revisited Richard D. Kortum

pp.222-232

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_28

Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2013

Pages: 258

DOI: 10.1057/9781137263544

ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-44259-1

ISBN (digital): 978-1-137-26354-4

Full citation:

Kortum Richard D. (2013) Varieties of tone: Frege, Dummett and the shades of meaning. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.